Skye, Portree, Scorrybreck Road, Scorrybreck House

Scorrybreac, c.1830 Handsome farmhouse built down by the shore after the clearances on the Scorrybreac estate. It replaced the earlier 'great house of the even floor', the seat of the Nicolsons of Scorrybreac, which stood up on the slopes of Toravaig.

[A few stones is all that survives of the old house of the Nicolsons of Scorrybreac, depicted on Matthew Stobie's map of 1763 as a single storey three-bay dwelling with garrets, with a handsome quarter garden to its rear - one of the earliest illustrations of a Skye gentry house. It was abandoned, probably round 1825, when Norman, the last Nicolson chief to live on Skye, emigrated to Tasmania; the Nicolsons' creditors gave up Scorrybreac in 1827.]

Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2007. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

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SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE

Additions and repairs to Scorrybreck House.

Sums paid for mason, joiner, pasterer and painter work noted in Factor's Accounts of 1892 and in MacDonald Estate Cash Books for 1893 and 1894.

1892 GD 221/59/5

1893 and 1894 GD 221/133/1